Player / Il cartaio (The Card Player)

Directed by: Dario Argento
Produced by: Dario Argento, Claudio Argento
Screenplay: Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini
Cast: Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham, Silvio Muccino
Cinematography: Benoit Debie
Release date: December 2003
Duration: 103 minutes
Country: Italy
Genre: Horror, thriller, crime, detective

Player

The police investigator of Rome, Anna receives a message from which comes in shock. The essence of the message is that the kidnapped young Englishwoman is in the hands of a sadistic maniac who wishes to play with police detectives on the Internet Poker . The bet in the game is the life of a stolen Englishwoman. As a result, the maniac wins the game and the Englishwoman dies. Further, the maniac again abducts his victim, so the number of innocent victims grows. The best minds of the police can not do anything, they can not find a maniac. Still, the investigator Anna, along with the British detective John Brennan, manages to make a maniac challenge and the brilliant intuition of the police guides them along the right path, but Anna does not know that in the decisive fight with the maniac the bet will be her own life ...